Following a stampede at the Sabarimala temple on Sunday night after a barricade gave way in the huge rush, at least 40 pilgrims were injured, and three of them are critical, said officials. The situation has been brought under control said State Devasom Minister Kadakampally Surendran. “All the medical attention[Read More…]
Following allegations of ragging in a government medical college at Manjeri in Kerala’s Malappuram district, at least 21 students have been suspended. Senior students allegedly made freshers to wash toilets and drink contaminated water as part of the ragging. Around 40 students lodged a complaint with the college management regarding[Read More…]
Five senior college students accussed of ragging junior students at a government polytechnic college in Nattakam in Kottayam district, in Kerala, have surrendered before Kerala Police. The students will be produced before court on Monday. Earlier a student has been admitted to a hospital in Thrissur, where he was been[Read More…]
Malayalam film director Aashiq Abu has lashed out against the right wing forces who labeled director Kamal as a Muslim anti-national. The director has quoted an article, which questioned the Sangh Parivar narrative of converting Kamal to Kamaluddin, a Muslim anti-national. Kamal is the chairman of Kerala State Film[Read More…]
Eleven people, including two women, were arrested on Monday by Kerala Police at the ongoing International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) in Thiruvananthapuram for not standing when the national anthem was played before the movie screening. Six people, including a woman, remained seated when the national anthem was playing before[Read More…]
Days after Kerala Police shot down two alleged members of CPI-Maoist,Kuppu Devarajan and Ajitha, at the Nilambur forest region in Malappuram districts. Many evidences were surfacing in the social media which rebuffs the police narrative of an encounter. Manjeri District Court has ordered police officials not to cremate the bodies[Read More…]
Demonetisation has been the talk of the town for 3 week now. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s scrapping of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 from the financial system of India on November 8 came as a shock to many. Long lines at the ATM and banks have become a common sight[Read More…]
At least three people with suspected Maoist links have been killed in an encounter with Kerala Police in the Paduka forest range of Nilambur in Malappuram district. The firing started on Thursday afternoon and was continuing. Two of the dead have been identified as Devaraj and Ajitha, Malayala Manorama reported.[Read More…]
The surprise move of demonetisation announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 8 had made 23 billion currency notes worthless. The pile of the stacked notes would be 300 times the height of Mount Everest. Getting rid of the junked notes, amounting to 86% of the currency in circulation,[Read More…]
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan led a protest outside the RBI office on Friday along with 17 cabinet ministers and party leader Sitaram Yechury. They said that the move by RBI not to allow these banks to accept deposit or change the existing notes is destroying the co-operative sector. After[Read More…]
Five days after the utopian plan of demonetisation, Centre seems to turn a blind eye towards the common man’s suffering and was busy in melodrama and boasting about black money seizure. People all over the country have been standing in long queues in the process of converting the ‘paper’ into[Read More…]
Ernakulam Sessions Court on Thursday dismissed the petition filed by Jisha’s father asking further investigation in to the case. The petitioner said that some of the findings of the investigation team are factually incorrect. Pappu, father of Jisha, alleged that there is a mismatch in the time of death recorded[Read More…]
The Kerala government on Monday said to the Supreme Court that women of all age groups should be allowed inside the sanctum sanctorum of Sabarimala temple. Following this, the court posted the next hearing in the matter for February 20. Earlier,Kerala Devaswam Minister Kadakampally Surendran had in June said that[Read More…]
The dog menace in Kerala has the public divided. On one side, people want the threat any way possible, the other group wants to not harm dogs in any way possible. One of the staunch supporters of the former is Jose Maveli, pursuing what he says is a mission to[Read More…]
Six youngsters have been arrested from Kerala by the National Investigation Agency on suspicion of carrying out an ‘IS-inspired module’ in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. They were reportedly planning to attack various places in India after owning allegiance to the so called caliphate led by Abu-Bakr al-Baghdadi.As per the NIA[Read More…]
In a shocking incident, members of the Youth Front (Mani) on Monday killed around 10 stray dogs in Kottayam, to protests against rising menace of street dogs in the city. The members were from the youth wing of the Kerala Congress group and they battered the dogs, tied a few[Read More…]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a public rally in Kozhikode, Kerala at BJP’s National Council Meet. The BJP supremo talked about elevating poverty and unemployment, while he trained his guns on Pakistan by calling them a nation run by terrorists which exports terrorism. He also addressed the Pakistani leaders by[Read More…]
Onam will be a dry day after-all! Booze lovers in Kerala faced a major disappointment on Thursday as the government after giving high promises of ‘online alcohol’ in morning, withdrew the proposal in evening. Soon after tipplers in Kerala rejoiced the announcement made by Consumerfed chairman M. Mehboob which spoke[Read More…]
The new Kerala government, led by chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan, announced its first budget on Friday. In his budget speech, finance minister Thomas Isaac introduced a “fat tax” of 14.5% on branded restaurants like McDonalds, Dominos and Pizza Hut etc. Isaac expects an estimated ₹10 crore would be raised by[Read More…]
In a landmark order, the Kerala State Information Commission has made attempts to make government business and dealings more transparent. Lifting the ‘iron curtain’ over state cabinet’s decisions, the Kerala Information Commission has ordered that all decisions by the state government, once finalized in the cabinet, to be available to[Read More…]
